Rosette left home when she was only eight-teen, and went out into the Rocky Mountains alone with one horse, two mules, rifles and supplies. knowing how to defend herself, she could kill a animal with one shot, and not afraid to use both rifles and handguns to protect herself against other mountaineers. A mess group that was operated by men who she hunted with at times, hated her because she was not afraid to express her own feelings and thoughts. One day she came to a small town and began to sell pelts for cash, when a strange man came up to her name Chris Barton. Something about his behavior and human responses was unclear to her, and it seemed if this was just her imagination, but was it for real? Until the day Rosette was caught by the Ute Indians that changed everything she had felt for him, and then she knew the truth about who he really is. But in the back of her mind there was one question must be answered, could she love and trust him again?

Reproduction of the original.

Early in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West extended the national consciousness to continental dimensions. Though Lewis and Clark blazed a narrow corridor of geographical reality, the West remained largely terra incognita until trappers and traders--Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Tom Fitzpatrick, Jedediah Smith--opened paths through the snow-choked mountain wilderness. They opened the way west to Fremont and played a major role in the pivotal years of 1845-1848 when Texas was annexed, the Oregon question was decided, and the Mexican War ended with the Southwest and California in American hands, the Pacific Ocean becoming our western boundary.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.